Solution

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Choose a basis of the finite-dimensional vector space and let be the maximum absolute coordinate. For any norm , the triangle inequality gives
so is continuous in the coordinate topology. On the compact set , the positive continuous function attains a positive minimum and a finite maximum . By absolute homogeneity,
This proves the equivalence of norms in finite dimensions: every norm is equivalent to the maximum norm, and transitivity of these inequalities proves that any two norms on a finite-dimensional vector space are Lipschitz equivalent.

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